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After some fairly passionate requests on the forum, we’ve implemented a “no wrap” option for when sending text emails. This is currently on the beta server (http://www.fastmail.fm/beta/) and is available only when:

You are in the “Advanced” mode

You are editing in text mode

The message area is set to “screen width” mode

In this case, a new arrow will appear at the top right of the message box either as >> or

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU:
* Migration to the Peer1 Network: Making your network connection more reliable and more stable than ever before!

Well, fair enough. The new IP address is 64.34.176.20 – they’ll be running concurrently for a couple of days and then I’ll turn the old IP address (69.44.56.233) off. I’ve already configured the new address and switched over DNS. Affected services are:

wap

blog

status blog

wiki

request tracker

a bunch of internal stuff for us that you don’t need to know about ;)

As usual, let us know if anything stops working for you – but it seems pretty painless. The ability to have both IPs running concurrently is a nice touch that many providers don’t bother with, so I’m very happy with ServerBeach over this :)

A long term and slightly annoying bug with FastMail has just been fixed.

Up until yesterday, if you went to Options -> Define Rules and created a “File into folder” rule and a “Forward” rule and an incoming email happened to match both rules, you would end up with a copy of the email in the file into folder (correct), forwarded to the specified email address (correct) and also a copy in your inbox (incorrect).

This problem has now been fixed. To enable it, you just have to go to Options -> Define Rules and click the Done button. That will rebuild your sieve script with the rule fix and stop the above problem occuring. More information is available in this forum post

To send an email, simply place an email address of the form {number}@sms.messagingengine.com in the To: line of your email.

Note that you must have an SMS sending number set up in your default personality. To do this, login to FastMail.FM, click Options, then Personalities, and ensure that the ‘Mobile Number’ is filled in correctly.

You also need to have pre-purchased SMS credits. Click Options, then ‘Purchase SMS Credits’ to buy these.

A bunch of minor fixes have gone in today. Some of these are only currently available on the beta server but will be rolled out shortly.

Emails with badly formatted dates sometimes cause sorting problems on the mailbox screen. We now deal with most cases better than before. Unfortunately this fix is only for new incoming emails, existing emails with a bad date will still sort oddly

https URLs for user web sites are recognised correctly in the address book

If a session expires, and you click logout, and then try and login, you won’t immediately be logged out again

On the signatures screen, if you had some empty lines at the start of your signature, then each time you saved the signature, it would loose one blank line. This has been fixed.